HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS, December 8, 1864.

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE,
Chief of Staff:

Major Dawson, inspector of pickets, reports that the appearance of the enemy's lines, their fires, &c., are the same this morning as on previous days, but that there is less firing, which may be accounted for by the sharp cold of the morning and from the fact that the lines have been so near each other for several days.

TH. J. WOOD,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS, December 8, 1864-6.30 p.m.

Major General J. B. STEEDMAN:

Appearances in my front the same as when you were with me to-day.

TH. J. WOOD,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, December 8, 1864.

Major-General SCHOFIELD:

GENERAL: I am directed by the major-general commanding to say that he desires to see you at these headquarters at 10 o'clock this morning.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ROBT. H. RAMSEY.

(Same to Major General A. J. Smith, Major General James B. Steedman, and Brigadier General Thomas J. Wood.)

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, [December 8, 1864.]

Major-General SCHOFIELD:

The major-general commanding desires to see yourself and General Ruger at these headquarters this evening. Please notify General Ruger.

Respectfully,
ROBT. H. RAMSEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE OHIO,

No. 174. In the Field, Nashville, Tenn.,

December 8, 1864.

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II. Brigadier General Thomas H. Ruger, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby relieved from the command of the Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, and assigned to the command of the First Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, which division he will proceed to organize with as little delay as practicable.